Meditations on "Recovery"

What are we doing from day to day, even moment to moment, to train ourselves to hear and respond to the voice of God?

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

King David lied, cheated, committed adultery and murder.

One day while Jesus was preaching God’s word, four men arrived at the house where Jesus was, carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.

Jesus risen from the dead? Jesus alive? Initially the disciples found it hard to believe Jesus was with them as a real person with real help for their real problems.

What we think leads to what we do. Thought almost always precedes action, yet thinking can be inaccurate and miss the mark.

To begin our new life in recovery we need to permit God to remove from us our old “ways of insanity”.

What does it actually mean to turn our will and our life over to the care of God?

The foundation of brokenness and pain in many of us was established in that part of our lives that we experienced as unsafe or unfulfilling.

When we first came into recovery we tended to focus on our past behaviour.

When we come into Christian gatherings we often hear of the great love that God has for each of us.

No matter how strong we feel, it’s not enough to bring us through to sustained recovery.